It fixes the climate in our house.
Why not just reverse all air conditioners? Heat the insides of buildings, and cool the world? Problem solved!
Air conditioners blow HOT air out the other side, dumbasses.
I just had central air installed in my house, so you can expect a summer with well below normal temperatures.
And this stupidity is from Scientific American...once a very good periodical.
The only reason for air conditioning is white people.
This pathetic gobbledygook gets worse daily
Clever, but stupid. Sucking CO2 out of the air requires energy. Less energy with this idea, but energy nevertheless. That energy is generated with something that contributes to the level of CO2.
If you suck CO2 out of the air, plant life will grow less lavishly to compensate for the reduced CO2, and that will reduce the amount of oxygen in the air which will impact animal life which will produce less CO2. Get where this is going? Nature is self-correcting.
CO2 is produced by the power plant, not the air conditioning unit. So every power plant would have to have some sort of “carbon-capture” equipment that is powered by renewable energy. Not sure how that would work, but would probably raise the price of electricity astronomically.
It has been written in Wattsupwiththat that there is no global warming if the only temperature readings that are used are not in the metro-urban heat sinks.
Let me see. Our interior spaces heat up in part because they are closed environments that earth’s natural air currents have less effect on. So we cool them by cooling the interior air, taking the heat extracted from it and throwing it outside.
Then we measure the outside air temperature and declare it is warming greater than it ought to be. Well duh!!!
The left is like giant cargo cult
Wouldn’t it be like opening your refrigerator door to cool your kitchen?
Scientific American WAS a good magazine. It is now a wussy science for dummies for social justice. EVERY article is 100% PC.
How about a large vacuum cleaner with planet-sized CO filters. It would vacusuck the atmosphere, and then restore it back to health.
***The researchers imagine a system of modular components, powered by renewable energy, that would not just extract carbon dioxide and water from the air.***
There is already an item for this. It converts CO2 into oxygen. It is called a “tree”. I’ve planted many of them.
I remember some nitwit proposed that Southern California put a row of giant fans on top of the mountain ridges to blow the smog into the Central Valley.
No.... (hee hee)...comment... (hee hee).
“would not just extract carbon dioxide and water from the air. It would also convert them into hydrogen”
That must just be a badly written statement. There’s no way to turn carbon dioxide into hydrogen. I’m guessing there are chemical reaction formulas shown in the article that gives a better description of the process.
The bottom line, as always: do the benefits exceed or at least equal the costs?
Everybody just crank your A/C up to full.